INTERNATIONAL ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA

COURSE OUTLINE

Kulliyyah Engineering

Department Electrical and Computer Engineering

Programme Communication Engineering

Course Title Digital Communications / Communication Engineering II

Course Code ECE3242 / ECE3125

Status Core

Level 3

Credit Hours 3

Contact 3
Hours
Pre-
requisites ECE3241 / ECE3124
(if any)
Co-requisites
(if any)
Instructor Prof. Dr. Mohammad Umar Siddiqi
Semester Every Semester
Offered
Course Building blocks of digital communication systems. Review and
Synopsis characterization of digital signals and systems. Probability theory,
random variables and random processes. Baseband digital transmission
and inter-symbol interference (ISI). Basic digital modulation schemes -
ASK; PSK; and FSK. Effect of noise and bandwidth limitation on the
performance of baseband and pass-band modulation and demodulation
schemes.
Course The objectives of this course are
Objectives 1. To introduce the elements of digital communication systems.
2. To introduce statistical analysis of random signals.
3. To understand digital modulation and demodulation techniques: ASK,
PSK and FSK.
 4. To analyze sources of performance degradation in digital
communication systems
5. To understand and analyze the effect of noise and band-limited
transmission channels on the performance of digital modulation
schemes.

Learning Upon completion of this course, students should be able to:

Outcomes 1. Identify and explain the function of basic elements of digital
communication systems
2. Compute bandwidth requirements of digital transmission schemes
3. Analyze the performance of digital baseband and pass-band modulation
schemes in the presence of noise
4. Analyze ISI and methods to alleviate it
5. Design simple digital equalizers and modems (modulators and
demodulators)

Instructional
Strategies Lectures and Presentations
Course
Assessment LO Method %
State 1,2,3 Mid-term Test 30
weightage of
2,3,4,5 Final Examination 40
each type of
assessment. 1,2,3,4 Quizzes 15
2, 3, 4 Assignments 15

Content Outlines
Weeks Topics Task/Reading
1,2,3 Introduction: concept of a digital communication system Chapter 1,
and its building blocks, Review of Fourier series and Appendix A
Fourier transform and their properties. Classification of
signals. Spectral Density and Autocorrelation functions.
Bandwidth of digital signals.
4,5 Review of probability theory and random processes: Chapter 1,
Random signals and random variables, random and Appendix B
stochastic processes. Basic element of probability theory.
Conditional probability and Bayes’ Theorem. Probability
density function (pdf) and cumulative probability
distribution function (CDF).
6,7 Formatting and baseband modulation. Sampling theorem Chapter 2
and aliasing. Pulse code modulation and quantization.
Correlative coding, duo-binary coding.
8,9,10 Base-band digital signals and noise, Inter-symbol Chapter 3
interference and equalization, Baseband signal detection,
detection of binary signals in Gaussian noise, performance
of baseband digital systems. Baseband modems
(modulation and demodulation).
11,12 Band-pass modulation, Amplitude shift keying (ASK), Chapter 4
Frequency shift keying (FSK), and Phase shift keying
(PSK). Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (QAM).
Demodulation/Detection of band-pass digital signals in
Gaussian noise. Coherent and non-coherent detection
schemes, Band-pass modems.
13, 14 Selected topics in digital communications – Design of Chapters 3.4,5
equalizers and modems

References
Required
Sklar, B., (2001), Digital Communications: Fundamentals and
Applications, 2nd Edition, Prentice Hall.

Recommended
1.
Carlson, A.B., (2009), Communication Systems: An Introduction
to signals and Noise in Electrical Communication, 5th Edition,
McGraw-Hill.
2. Couch L.W. (2007), Digital and Analog Communication Systems,
7th Edition, Prentice Hall.
2. Haykin, S., (2009), Communications Systems, 5th Edition, Wiley &
Sons.
3. Lathi, B.P., (1998), Modern Digital and Analog Communication
Systems, 3rd edition, Oxford University Press.
4. Proakis, J.G., Salehi, M., (2002), Communication Systems
Engineering, 2nd Edition, Prentice Hall.
5. Ziemer, R.E., Peterson, R., (2001), Introduction to Digital
Communication, 2nd Edition, Prentice Hall.